Health is affected by many factors in our daily lives. However, there are some
factors that affect our health more than others. Health is more dependent on the
distribution of wealth and public services than it is on personal lifestyle choices. For
instance, being born into a family with a lower social status immediately brings upon a
higher likelihood of sicknesses and complications during pregnancy, which is clearly a
main factor in our health throughout life. On the contrary being born into an upper class
family allows for much more self-embellishment and a favorable position in the hierarchy
of our medical care system, thus in turn allowing a longer life span than those not so
privileged. Therefore one can easily see that the social class which one is born into affects
his or her life more than any personal lifestyle simply because in our modern society you
can “get anything for time and money”.
In response to a British study that observed the differences between the longevity
of “gentlemen” and “laborers” and found that “gentlemen” lived twice as long on average
than “laborers”,